Wordless Wednesday - summer for Bosco

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Wordless Wedensday

(*yes, I kno it is Fursday but I was avin a nap yesterday and forgot.....)

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Borderfest

Ello for you. I spect you haz notissed that I haz been neglectin my blog for a cupple of weeks. I do say sorry for dat and I ope you be enjoyin this story of sumwhere we did go a few weeks ago.

If you is on twitter you will know that last weekend of April was #borderfest, wot be a gatherin of border terriers in a campsite at a secret locayshun in middle of England wot only kwality peeple and dogs was invited to......and Lola...

I was burstin wiv enthusiasm for it.....

"wake up dog"

....well I was more burstin wiv enthusiasm after I had my brekkfast and we had packed all I noms into bags and we got into the car to be eadin off...

Are we there yet?

....we did get there bout lunchtime and we did mediately see our pals wot be there.....

...cos they was all sittin in  big circle and chattin and someow @eddietheborder did recognise me and we did go over and say ell for him and @brunotheborder and Poppy wot be @valentineslady who was all sittin wiv they mums by the big caravan. We did all ave a sniff to say ello but Lola was gettin uppity and did start some scraps so we decide to let everyone calm down and ave they own space and we did go an sit in some shade....

ello neighbour

We did sit down near Scooby, who was  a very polite dogggie and was the only terrier there who did not need to ave his lead on cos he always do as he say. We did gib him a biskit to say ello and we did chat wiv his mum. I fink he was one of the border terriers wot did come from facebook cos it was their pack who did all of the organisin...

Facebookers....

 ....you can see that there was quite a pack .....includin our old pal Claire from Wrexham who be @clairemarie_85 but she did not be able to bring Molly an Jack wiv her...and the nice peeple wot did be organisin fings did be avin a raffle....and we did win sumfing....

Wot is it Willium?

.....but I did need elp from Lola to get it open.....

.....and then we won AGAIN.....and we did ave to get all #destructogang on it....

"retired" wrappin papers

....which was a good job cos @teddytheterrier did come by wiv his offishul #destructogang badge on checkin up on the members....

....and then we won AGAIN!!!!!........

Lord almighty, mini bones!

After we did ave our lunch we did ave a chance to get to kno our pals a bit better.....I did ave a chat wiv Eddie....

Boys chekkin out girls

....and Teddy and Broono did ave a punch up dance .....

Take you pardner by the hand...

.....but of course, I was keepin a eye out for new arrivals.....

This is Marlee reportin from #borderfest

and so we did ave our pal @licklepickle wiv us and she had brort my old pal Hendrix to say ello...

Endrix an Willium compare twigs...

....and then TARANTARA (*sound of trumpets) I am telled by dad that my dearest pal Lexie do be comin and I do get very excited and rush up to her for sayin ello wivout givin due considerayshun to ow to treat a lady...

Queen Lex sticks out the royal tongue

....and I got short shrift and a little bitey was applied.....but then we do get some time to get quainted....

....and before long we is gettin along famussly and we did get the update on fings wiv Atlantis from Justin an Wendy....even if I did ave to keep checkkin that my bodyguards, Lola an Eddy was not to far away.....

Please keep close

...and it was firsty work keepin up wiv all the goins on and I did stop for a nice cup of tea....

Haz you put sugar innit?

....and quite revived by snaks I did gib some of my own back to Lexie....

I got tongue too Lady!!

Later in the afternoon we was joined by the lovely @clairetweet and George and of course @ernietheborder

"Giant" Ern

....who was mahoosive.....in fact everyone was bigger than me an Lola and we did look quite the weeds....
and George was keepin us all entertained wiv his chat....oh....and some of Claire's delishus peanut cookies....

George, mysteriously popliar

It was a very ot day and we was finkin bout goin ome about tea time but not before we did manage to get a nice shot of all our pals sitting together.....

Ern, George, Lora, Endrix, Willium, Lola, Me, Typist

We was very appy to meet some of our pals in the flesh but we was sad we did get so little time wiv each one and ardly got to speak wiv @valentineslady and did miss @marthethewestie completely in the hurlyburly an also I do be gibbin the typist the glare cos he was doin rubbish werk wiv da camera and we did get ardly any good fotos on the day. We pologise bout dat.

Before we left we did go and see if we could find Lexie.....but we did find her royal apartments was vacated....

leevin peemail

....but Wendy did give us some delishus sossidges for the journey ome and we did rasshum then and we is still enjoyin little bits when we is on our walks.

Woof. We do ope we can ave another #borderfest nex year.....Marlee

St Marley's Day

Ello for you. I ope you did ave a nice day on Saturday. I bet you dint kno it was St Marley's Day! That's right, is a speshul day of the year dedictaed to St Marley, the patron saint of nappin. "HANG ON!" i hear sum of you sayin, "is not 23 April St George's Day, patron saint on Englund?" I do say for you that it used to be but he has been demoted on account of only bein responsible for killin some weedy dragon....

So-called "saint" and weedy dragon...

I dussnt fink that lady do be impressed wiv dat "Saint" George! Oh no, not when she hear about my recent adventures. I was out walkin wiv mum the other day when we did come across a adder snake on the path in the woods. Adders is only poisynouse snake in the whole of the UK and this one was avin a sunbathe right across where I do be walkin...

Actual snake ....probbly

He was very fiersome lookin and was ungry and ready to eat anyones wot be comin along finkin it was a nice sunny day and safe in leafy Surrey....

Deadly "Surrey adder" chokin a victim

....but he run off into the trees when he see me comin. I gib him the eye and flash him my teef and he is quickly scurryin off into the trees never to be seen again.....I decided to put up warnin sign and go off and look for any evvydence of more snakes...

....we scoured the countryside and did end up in the big field......

Snake hunters...

.....and it was not long before we come across this.....

Adder HQ

YIKES!! Its a snake hotel wot the local farmer did build in his field for keepin snakes in. Dad wanted to lift up the lid and ave a look but mum say "NO" and we go back to Marley Towers to ave a fink about it....

I am restin....not hidin.....restin

Of corse, I was all for raidin that otel and gibbin them snakes what for..but others do be advisin a less confruntayshunul approach....Followin  day we decide we haz to go out to ave another walk. I am sayin that I was afraid of that snakes and his teef quite tired from walk the day before but dad is sayin me not to be layzee and to get a move on....so I dellygate Lola to haz a look out the window for any snaky introoders...wot might be a danger to others....

Keepin wotch over Snake Alley...

..and I set forth armed wiv only my teef to do battle wiv wotever do come our way.....in no way friten of seein more snakes....just usin proper corshun...

A brave dog stalkin in the jungle

...and I am pretty sure that there do be no more snakes....and I tell dad this....but he say me there might be cos that snake hotel look quite big....so I decide I haz to get off the ground quick sharp a better vantage point for keepin look out....

Keepin a look out....not hidin....lookin

....and we is in luck cos Mr Snake and his pals has been well and trooly scared off by me, Marley, Scourge of Snakes...so we run away go bak ome to hide from the snakes elp Willium wiv his omework....

Doin omewerk....chemistree or sumfing

Followin day, we did go to Goring by the sea in Sussex and I wonder if i could escape country by swimmin to France....there be any snakes at sea...



...and as we walk down the beach I did fink about escapin by surfboard to Norway tryin a new sport....

 

Lifeboat sports ekwipment

All that walkin was ard werk in the sun so we decided to stop into the Bluebird Cafe to see the other doggies and to tell em about I great feats of bravery and strengff

Gibbin the news....not hidin...news

Larry the Lurcher was there and he was totally floored by my story...

Larry gets the news....

....and now I am keepin well of the ground at all times permanintly employed by Surrey for keepin wotch over the county ....

Guardin....not hidin....guardin

So, every year now in honner of my runnin off like a skeerdy cat slayin the Surrey Serpent , 23 April is St Marley's Day. There is nommin and nappin for all ...

St Marley

Famblee Reunion

Ello for you. You kno dat feeling you get when you do not kno wot the day old in store and you is wonderin if you gonna get to do anyfing interestin?...

A dog contemplates his skedyool

well, that was me on Saterdee.......but then dad remind us that we is goin to see Rocky and Islay who do be my dad and my sisfur wot do live nearby. You might remeber we did see em before and that story do be ere if you dint see it....we were very excited to be doin that and we was waitin impayshuntly in the car for the humans to get their butts into gear...

Urry up, is impawtant bizness to attend to

...we is goin to meet them in a place called Hambledon wot be a villej near to where we is all livin. Is such an impawtant villej that they did recently win a prize....

...and is hazzin they own website....we was very excited to see my dad Rocky when we got there.....he come beetlin straight up .....

Ello dad....

...and Katie was soon doin wot she do best....dolin out the noms.....

Who wants one?

....but of course Issie (wot we do call Islay) and Lola was soon at they old tricks and puttin the bitey on each ovver as tho each was the other's last meal....

Shall I referee?

You sit in that corner Lola pleez....

We was soon on the way and enjoyin the countryside and the nice wevvers...

...and runnin up the Offishul Terrier Trenches.....and of corse we was eadin for the pub....

...where they haz signs wot do be ritted in langwidge a dog do understand....

We haz been to this pub afore and we did show you some pics from inside then. You can be seein em here....and also I fink you can see the skeery coincidence of wot we was reportin at the end of that blog....and I was able to use cammoflarge of the chairs to sneak up on some snaks....

Haz you dropped chips?

.....after our lunch we did pose for offishul expedisshun foto...

Marlee, Lola, Issie, Rocky

....but the rest had only swerved to make the gurls a bit frisky again and they was at each other as soon as we gets back into the woods...wiv yours truly breakin it up again...



..but we was still enjoyin the sun and Issie did try and fly ome using her new ear attachmints...

*approachin take-off speed*

...but she did put in so much efforts that she did ave to lie down for a nap....

This sand is comfy...

Wot? I is nappin.....

Pffft....girls.....they is rubbish....

Rockee an Marlee doin manly stuff...

We had a great day and I was very happy to spend some time wiv my famlee again. I do say ello for them and a speshul woof for Christian an Katie who was very kind to us all day....

The DogFather

 Marlee, Son of Rockee......woof

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